WEDNESDAY 15

 

FILM  ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:30

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Lost Horizon(USA)

134 min; 1937; dvd; b/w; English)

Director: Frank Capra

 

Recipient of the Oscar Award for Best Art Direction & Best Film, Academy Awards 1938; and National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board 2016

 

Classic film based on James Hilton’s best-selling novel about the enchanted paradise of Shangri-la, where time stands still

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

 

 

 

 

 

TALK  ? SEMINAR ROOMS II & III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30

 

Speaker: Dr. Martha Strawn is a Fulbright Scholar and photographer who has worked for thirty-five years on the practice, and the history and meaning of the threshold diagrams of India. Since 1977 she has revisited areas seven times, visually tracking variations in the practice as the Indian culture changed. She worked with women in neighbourhoods and villages, as well as, with Indian scholars in North and South India to create a visual and textual testament to the importance of the threshold diagrams as is chronicled in her book, Across the Threshold of India: Women, Art and Culture

 

Chair: Dr Sharada Nayak

 

(Organised by the IIC International Research Division)

TALK  ? CONFERENCE ROOM I AT 18:30

 

 

Air Travel and My Health

Series Moderator: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi

 

Keynote Speaker: Shri J.S. Rawat, Joint Director General, Directorate General of Civil Aviation

 

Panelists: Dr. Jyotsna Agarwal, Assistant Professor, Army Medical College; Dr. Neeraj Gupta, Senior Medical Officer, DGHS, GNCTD; Dr. T.K. Joshi, Consultant and Expert in Occupational Health and Safety; and Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director Professor, MAMC 

 

(Collaboration: Health Environment Foundation in association with Consumers India)

 

 

A Piano recital by Prof. Balazs Fueleii on the occasion of the 50th death anniversary of Zoltan Kodaly

 

The programme includes works by Kodaly and Bela Bartok

  

(Collaboration: Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre)

 

 

An exhibition of works in pen & ink and watercolours and shadow puppets

By Tarini Sethi from Delhi

 

Inauguration on Friday, 10 March 2017 at 18:30 

READINGS  ? CONFERENCE ROOM I AT 18:30

 

Release of Prof. N.K. Singh's book Haiku View followed by readings

 

Dr. Unita Sachidanand, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi will speak on The Concept of Minimalism and Haiku in Japan

 

Mr.  Kousuke Noguchi, Director, Japanese Language & Japanese Studies, Japan Foundation, New Delhi will also speak

Chair: Prof G.J.V. Prasad, Professor, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

City Scripts
At 10:30 – 12.15
Urbanisation Round Table  (Lecture Room I )
 
Panelists OP Mathur, Neha Sami, Amita Baviskar, Rathin Roy 
 
At 12:30- 1.15 (Lecture Room II)
Making Indian Cities More Sustainable And Equitable 
 
 Harsh Mander, Amita Baviskar, Dunu Roy, Diya Mehra
 
At 14:30- 15.15  ( Lecture Room II)
Sage Panel On Urbanisation
 
Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Suptendu Biswas,
 
At 15:30 – 16.15 (Lecture Room II)
Problematising Urban Masculinities 
 
Rahul Roy, Sanjay Srivastava, Madhura Lohakare
 
4:30 - 5:15 (Lecture Room II)
The City and Law
 
Amlanjyoti Goswami, Anuj Bhuwania,  A Sharan, Diya Mehra
 
5:30 - 6:15 (Lecture Room I)
Cinema and the City
 
Jai Arjun Singh, Trisha Gupta
           
 
 
City writing has gained popularity in the mainstream space in India over the last two decades across various genres. Aman Sethi's A Free Man, Naresh Fernandes' City Adrift and Vivek Shanbhag's Ooru Bhanga are some examples of narratives that archive the moments, people and practices that make and unmake a city over the years. City Scripts, the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), Bengaluru, celebrates writings that bring alive the city as seen through myriad lenses
 
On 11^th March City Scripts will continue at the Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi

Films by Gopi Gajwani (79 min)
Eight short films conceived and photographed by the noted artist, Gopi Gajwani. Each film has an independent theme and is without dialogue
 
The films will be introduced by the artist
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
Films:
Once Upon a Holy Crow (7 min; 2012; colour)
One for the Road (11 min; 2011; colour)
A Working Fiesta (6 min; 2012; colour)
Striding Unto Glory (11 min; 2013; colour)
The End (9 min; 1973; b/w)
Time (13 min; 1974; b/w)
My First Prayer (12 min; 2014; colour)
Walking Tea on a Busy Street (6 min; 2014; colour)
 
(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

 

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

The Writings of Rajni Kothari - Politics in India, Caste in Indian Politics and Rethinking Democracy

With a foreword by Ashis Nandy (Orient BlackSwan, 2016)

 

Panelists: Prof. Yogendra Yadav, Senior fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Prof. Neera Chandhoke, former Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi and Prof. Zoya Hasan, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, JNU

 

Chair: Dr. Ashis Nandy, Sociologist and Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

 

DISCUSSION  ? SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30

 

Panelists: Naresh Fernandes, Editor, Scroll.in; Hartosh Singh Bal, Political Editor, The Caravan magazine; Seema Mustafa, Editor, The Citizen; and Madhu Trehan, Editor-in-Chief, Newslaundry.com

 

Moderator: Kanak Mani Dixit, Founding Editor, Himal Southasian

 

The media’s job of checking those in power is more urgent than ever in light of the political developments in Southasia and beyond. The words ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’, so prominent now following the US elections and the rise of demagogues in our part of the world, implies the flattening of all distinctions between opinion, facts and truth claims. What is the role of media in this environment? Given the excessive control wielded by corporate conglomerates over Indian media, and given that print seems to be imperilled everywhere, are there more creative ways to fund the journalistic enterprise, keeping in mind media independence? Are subscriber based models the future now? And how do we do this amidst trolls and the rise of fake news?

 

(Collaboration: Himal Southasian, Kathmandu)